The Role of the Traveler in Emerging Infections and Magnitude of Travel

Overview

Journal Med Clin North Am

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2008 Dec 9

PMID 19061759

Citations 23

Authors

Lin H Chen

Mary Elizabeth Wilson

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Abstract

Travel and trade have grown immensely. Travelers interact with people and microbes during their journeys, and can introduce infectious agents to new areas and populations. Studying illnesses in travelers is a source of knowledge into diseases of resource-poor regions and the control of these diseases. Travel-associated illnesses also serve to detect emerging infections.

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